River's Flooding Ocean's

 River's near the equator are flooding the oceans making marine life fail. The two big rivers making this a huge problem for the marine life are the Congo River (located in Africa) and the Amazon River (located in South Africa). The rainfall from these areas is causing flooding into the river which is pushing the fresh water from the river at a heavy flow into the ocean and the marine life which needs salt water is getting more fresh water causing the marine life to fail. The Amazon River alone is the biggest river to release fresh water into the ocean and the Congo River is right behind it making a flow of 10 billion gallons per a second into the ocean. These rivers are causing bulges at the location of where the rivers end and go into the ocean. 

https://eos.org/research-spotlights/river-plumes-near-the-equator-have-major-effects-on-oceans



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  1. Teagan LovinFebruary 22, 2021 at 7:06 AM

    I didn’t know this was happening but I feel like this will be a big problem since was are already limited on freshwater supplies

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  2. Torï OlivarezFebruary 22, 2021 at 9:18 AM

    This is terrible, it sucks that there aren’t a lot of people caring too much about our water since it’s one of the things we rely on before anything to survive.

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  3. Nicole PriceFebruary 22, 2021 at 11:09 PM

    Bri, I found this very interesting, especially having that we just learned how tonicity affects cells and fish in the Physiology lab recently. It's crazy to think that the very thing they rely on can also be the very thing to kill them. I wonder if anythings being done to deter this. I'd imagine it to be quite difficult, almost impossible, to completely stop the flow of water. But there has to be some way for us to slow down the movement.

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